[udig-devel] uDig Design

[Adrian Custer]

Hey all,

I've started thinking about writing up a formal design document and as
part of that I attempted a start. The document is attached as a PDF.

Would this kind of a document be useful to the project? Would it give us
a long term goal against which to work? Would an openoffice.org doc be
usable for us and could we we hash out the different pieces by
editing/discussing such a document? 

It's a slow, hard process to write this up; it also feels like so much
hand waving so I'm not terribly interested in doing this if it's not
going to be of general use. Please let me know what you think.

--adrian


On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 14:23 -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> And by "design" I do not mean software design, I mean user interface  
> and human/computer interaction design.
> 
> Talking with Adrian at FOSS4G and with Carl Anderson at URISA, both  
> had some high level guidance to give on how our user interaction  
> could be better.  We have been pretty ad hoc on this stuff, mostly  
> because the only person in the shop with enough industry experience  
> to have an opinion was also too busy to ever write something  
> comprehensive down.
> 
> I would like to invite Adrian and Carl and Vitaly and anyone else  
> with a big picture view of how things should look/be organized/work  
> at a UI level to participate fully and (preferably) stake out some  
> areas where they will be the Gods of Design that others can follow.
> 
> In particular, there are a some areas that are either due for  
> revamping or expanding that need some design guidance:
> 
> - Printing (and a possible printing perspective)
> - Catalog (and a possible catalogue perspective)
> - Analysis (and a possible analysis perspective)
> 
> Absent some kind of plan this stuff will continue to be addressed  
> piecemeal, so having some design guidance (there are the views the  
> perspective should have, this is what they do, how they interact)  
> would be immensely useful.
> 
> Paul
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